So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.

— Swami Vivekananda

Of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't wanna be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

— Marlin

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

“Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.”

— Beryl Smalley

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling…

— Ryan Newman

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

— Jed Diamond

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never…

— Frederick Buechner

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

— Alain Resnais

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it…

— Albert Einstein

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To…

— Joe Hill

“What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying…

— Vironika Tugaleva

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…

— Pearl S. Buck

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning…

— Paul Kurtz